Michael Mitnick’s comedy Ed, Downloaded began its Denver life last winter as a dramatic reading for the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit. Now it returns, as is often the case, as a full-blown production at the Ricketson Theatre. And if you like movies, this play — the…
If you’ve ever had a hankering to be served by gentlemen in kilts, this is your lucky day: The Colorado Tartan Day Council’s Highland Tea fundraiser will provide that delightful opportunity along with the other delicacies you’d expect at a proper tea. Today’s event is a benefit for the council’s…
Counter to the usual Valentine’s Day activities we all know and only some of us love, V-Day, the global activist movement started fifteen years ago today by Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler, shines its light on a different aspect of love: respect for and solidarity with women who have been…
Artist Dražen Grubišić and film producer Olinka Vištica were in a relationship for four years, and then they broke up. But their relationship didn’t end there — instead, they entered into a unique partnership by founding the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia: a heart-wrenching, funny and very personal…
#94: Onus Spears Onus Spears (that’s a stage name and Facebook alias) isn’t your typical creative. He’s been homeless at times, and he goes to AA meetings every day. He estimates that he’s had dozens of jobs — the number is in the hundreds, in fact — over his 49…
This one’s officially for the kids, but it’s really about the whole world, and the suffering of people in other nations. As part of its ongoing Monthly Creative Literacy program in collaboration with the Denver Public Library, RedLine will host the second of two One Million Bones art events in…
Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam and the Land, a touring show from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum that opens Sunday at the Denver Art Museum, is a beautiful and subtle exhibition with new revelations, even for the most advanced O’Keeffe-maniac. Incredibly, this is the Denver Art Museum’s first-ever major…
You don’t often hear throat singing — a traditional vocal technique for singing in overtones. Generally the domain of goat-herding Tuvans or Tibetan monks, it’s rarely performed by Americans. But you’ll get your chance tonight when cousins Andy and Kurt Bauer perform their world music live at the Swallow Hill…
It all began with a photograph, taken more than thirty years ago on an auspicious occasion. It pictures a smiling who’s who of a generation of Chicano artists working in Denver in the late 1970s, and at their center, seated on a couch, the great Mexican artist Francisco Zuñiga. He’d…
In Michael Hollinger’s Ghost-Writer, the literary title takes on a literal undertone: When Franklin Woolsey dies in the midst of dictating his novel, his secretary, Myra, continues to type, loading up the play with questions about love, loyalty, ambition and plagiarism. It’s a three-person drama, in which the concept of…
Humans generate a lot of junk here on Earth, it’s true. But in space — the final frontier — the junk is spinning out of control, so much so that it could endanger the future of space travel. The hazards generated by colliding space junk — dead satellites bashing into…
Brilliant from the start, Buntport Theater’s “live comic book,” Trunks, turns children’s theater on its nose by acknowledging the cyber-savvy wit of the modern kid and inviting the ’rents and everyone else to join in the delicious fun. And the literary thread of Trunks — each episode is based on…
Think of it as a snowy portal to Westword’s Artopia, which follows in just a couple of weeks: In the spirit of that multi-venue, multi-disciplinary night of Denver-made culture and art, tonight’s Whiteout Fashion Show focuses on fashion, with a healthy taste of Artopia-style art and culinary finesse offered on…
What do Miami Herald columnists do when they’re bored? They write books, of course, and not necessarily ones that reflect their journalistic oeuvres. Like Carl Hiaasen before him, Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry chooses to spin comic thrillers with plenty of Florida color. But given Barry’s proclivity for being funny,…
Everyone loves a contest, and it’s no different in the world of comedy. The Comedy Works’ Funny Final Four, which has four teams compete for top honors over a period of weeks, is a case in point: It’s so popular it keeps coming back, year after year. See also: -…
Crowdfunding is no longer an interesting anomaly: It’s become a part of life in the new economy, and often a reliable way for artists and creatives of all kinds raise money to fund special projects. The latest artist in town to kick off such an effort is Lauri Lynnxe Murphy,…
February is the month of the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day, but there’s really only one holiday that counts: Groundhog Day. Not because we take that shadow stuff seriously, but because Groundhog Day is silly, and silly things — especially those having to do with Groundhog Day –…
It’s more than a little eponymous when three Westword MasterMinds decide to share a studio, but that’s just what’s happened: Fine artists Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and Jimmy Sellars and fashion designer Mona Lucero, all in a state of career flux, have thrown their fortunes together at Powerhaüs Studios, where they’ll…
Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art will kick off the year with something both close to home and global in scope. Working in collaboration with Denver International Airport art curator Jacquelyn Connolly, the CVA is presenting In Situ, a satellite exhibit to Friends and Neighbors, a series…
The story we all know about Kurt Sonnenfeld, who called Denver police one night eleven years ago as his wife Nancy lay dying of a gunshot wound to the head, starts in the aftermath of 9/11, when he worked as a videographer at Ground Zero. Sonnenfeld, who cried 9/11 government…
Patrick Mueller of Control Group Productions isn’t exaggerating when he calls the movement and performance group’s new work, Salon Romantik, Opus 2, a “sprawl.” Not quite dance or simply performance art, the work encompasses a collaborative carnival of scenes and pieces and sequences that demand audience participation on various delightful…
Denver’s fourth annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash didn’t quite cross paths with the Colorado premiere of the major motion picture On the Road as originally hoped (the local opening is now scheduled for March), but the bash, celebrating the 87th anniversary of Neal Cassady’s birth, is still very much on…
